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- Patent Title: External cavity resonator type tunable light source which can be easily manufactured and which is capable of wavelength sweeping at high speed
- Patent Title (中): 外腔谐振器型可调谐光源,可以容易地制造,能够高速波长扫描
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Application No.: US12077398Application Date: 2008-03-19
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Publication No.: US07643520B2Publication Date: 2010-01-05
- Inventor: Kenichi Nakamura
- Applicant: Kenichi Nakamura
- Applicant Address: JP Atsugi-Shi
- Assignee: Anritsu Corporation
- Current Assignee: Anritsu Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Atsugi-Shi
- Agency: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, P.C.
- Priority: JP2004-100240 20040330
- Main IPC: H01S3/10
- IPC: H01S3/10

Abstract:
A collimator lens converts light beams emitted from a low reflectance facet of a semiconductor laser into parallel light beams. A diffraction grating receives and diffracts the light beams at a predetermined incident position and a predetermined angle of a diffraction face. A turnable mirror has a mirror surface which is positioned opposite the diffractance facet of the diffraction grating, makes the diffracted light beams incident in a reverse optical path to the diffraction face, and returns the incident light beams to the laser. A stationary mirror makes the light beams from the collimator lens incident from a predetermined direction to a predetermined position of the diffraction grating at the side of the mirror surface of a virtual plane extending from the mirror surface of the mirror and at the side of the diffraction face of a virtual plane extending from the diffraction face of the diffraction grating.
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